Another just us, just here day 🙂 Everyone had a lie in which meant for most of us our first meal was lunch… Ady spent some time in the horse box, cleaned out the top cupboards in our wardrobes with mold killer (I started to do it but could feel my cheeks itching and mold …
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Splitting the difference
Another mostly indoors day today. For me this is fine and dandy – I have a list of crafting things I want to do, stuff I want to research, online things to catch up on, paperwork to process and plans to make for next year. I have writing I want to do. Mostly though I …
Rumble
An almost entirely at home indoors day today. The shape of the season to come I suspect. Some of us are better at this than others…. I spent some time putting the Rumble (Rum newsletter) together, I’m waiting on a couple more submissions before setting it to print. And knitting. My fleece is now about …
Remember when?
It’s been sunshine and showers and bright blue skies and hail and clouds and a little bit of wind today. Briefly there was snow settled on the very peak of Askival (the highest Rum peak) but then it rained again and washed it off. We sat for over half an hour this morning watching three …
Bonus Day
Tomorrow is supposed to be bad weather, so much so that three people who were supposed to be leaving on the boat tomorrow headed off today instead. Today, however has been glorious, not November like at all with lots of sun and no wind. The solar panels were charging things up in the middle of …
Whizz bang weekend
The twitchers continue to come, another five charter boats this weekend and meanwhile the MoDo just does it’s thing. Most amusing. I went off to work yesterday morning and Scarlett joined me. She loves Jinty’s shop anyway and was a little star making tea, coffee (for me and her and one for Abby) and working …
It’s just a jump to the left…
Yesterday was Halloween-tastic. In the morning we all headed down to Vikki’s and 3/4 of us had baths (me, Ady, Davies). Vikki is away and had facebook messsaged me to say ‘please go and have baths, stroke my cat and if you need to move in cos the weather is dreadful then do so, spare …
Fresh Blood
This morning we debated Halloween costumes. Davies is his usual enthusiastic self and has more or less assembled everything he needs and just wanted a bit of help. He’s being a vampire wearing his own black clothes, a cloak made from an old dress, fangs from Jinty’s halloween sweet selection and a painted face. Scarlett …
Twitching Widow
A rare bird landed on Rum yesterday and was spotted by one of our birders here who sent the message out to the twitching world. Apparently it was a MEGA. We realised last night that this might mean an influx of birdy types on the ferry today and there was hurried emails being sent about …
Her name was Lola
Sunshine and showers here today. I put what may even be the penultimate lick of paint on the honesty larder (for this year, I may paint the sides come the spring) and darted in and out of the polytunnel whenever the heavens opened. I watered the lavender, strawberries and salad leaves in there and marvelled …
Weather warning
I’ve been feeling quite blase about weather warnings, even slightly smug although not wishing nasty weather on anyone we are so used to having dire wind and rain here it is commonplace so to have it be headline news when it hits other places feels a bit indulgent. And I know it isn’t and the …
Excitement, Rum style
Thursday morning escapes me but I know I made soup. I think I may have done some painting, but then again maybe I didn’t. After lunch Ady and I went down to the hostel to meet the scouts. We had a group of Explorer Scouts (12-15 years old) and their three leaders over on a …
In miniature
A wet, windy and sometimes sunny day today. Not great for getting things done outside but a real boon for solar and wind power 🙂 As a result we’ve charged everything up, had the internet on all day and not needed the genny at all today. I did a tiny bit of painting on the …
Rationalising
I had a Visitor Management Group meeting this morning and on the walk down there I made up my mind that if I were to start knocking on the head some of the things which I don’t find useful, enjoyable or fulfilling this would be a good thing to not do any more. So I …
S, S, M
Saturday morning was me off to work at being Mrs Post. A very quiet shift – just Abby, Coryla and Jinty came along. Oh and Manager Mike who bought me some apples. I wasn’t quite sure either but apples are always welcome (when given nicely, not chucked at me, obviously). After 12 I went to …
In other news
I noticed there were two lots of in other news on the last post. So this entire update is brought to you by way of other news. Yesterday in other news Ady went to work with Chainsaw Dave on fixing the Pajero. It is more fixed than it was in that it now more or …
Yay fixed leg
Do you remember when I used to mention my home educated children on this blog? Now I just leave them to fend for themselves while I swan about crofting and that. Recently I had a wee wobble about whether they would be able to exist in the real world once they fledge and we release …
Sunday through Tuesday
Can you tell I’ve been hanging out with a Canadian? 😉 On Sunday morning Manager Mike (new SNH reserve manager, not Ranger Mike, it gets very confusing here when we have two people with the same name!) came up. He is really into our lifestyle and all about the permaculture and transition town and stuff …
It’s been beautiful days
Thursday morning Ady put the car batteries on charge and then we spent the day on the croft. I did some weeding of the raised beds, planted some garlic, chopped some firewood and generally pottered. Ady and I both went to place the veg order and stayed for a beer. There was a ceilidh happening …
Yawn
Not sure if we’re getting carbon monoxide poisoning from the log burner (I am sure really, we have a proper alarm for it to ensure we are not, before everyone worries!) or whether living so much closer to nature is putting us into a semi hibernative state but Ady and I are both shattered this …